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Amo 5:8 — [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

maketh		Job 9:9; Job 38:31,32
and turneth		Job 12:22; Job 38:12,13; Psa 107:10-14; Mat 4:16; Luk 1:79
maketh		Amo 4:13; Amo 8:9; Exd 10:21-23; Exd 14:24-28; Psa 104:20; Psa 105:28; Isa 59:10
that calleth		Amo 9:6; Gen 7:11-20; 1Ki 18:44,45; Job 37:13; Job 38:34
The LORD		Amo 4:13

Correlating Passages

maketh

	Job 9:9	Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
	Job 38:31	Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
	Job 38:32	Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

and turneth

	Job 12:22	He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
	Job 38:12	Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
	Job 38:13	That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
	Psa 107:10	Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;
	Psa 107:11	Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
	Psa 107:12	Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and [there was] none to help.
	Psa 107:13	Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses.
	Psa 107:14	He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
	Mat 4:16	The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
	Luk 1:79	To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

maketh

	Amo 4:13	For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.
	Amo 8:9	And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
	Exd 10:21	And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness [which] may be felt.
	Exd 10:22	And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
	Exd 10:23	They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
	Exd 14:24	And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
	Exd 14:25	And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
	Exd 14:26	And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
	Exd 14:27	And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
	Exd 14:28	And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, [and] all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
	Psa 104:20	Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].
	Psa 105:28	He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
	Isa 59:10	We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].

that calleth

	Amo 9:6	[It is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.
	Gen 7:11	In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
	Gen 7:12	And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
	Gen 7:13	In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
	Gen 7:14	They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
	Gen 7:15	And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
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	1Ki 18:44	And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare [thy chariot], and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
	1Ki 18:45	And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
	Job 37:13	He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
	Job 38:34	Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

The LORD

Amo 4:13

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name.

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